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That's it. You might be able to look at a new home on a developed street where you want your new meter box 50 ft. from existing lines and come to the conclusion that it will almost certainly be cheaper than getting power to your remote farmstead where there's not a single power line for a mile...

How has the EU gotten away with breaching those rules then, and why shouldn't the U.K. be able to do likewise? This seems to be suggesting that it's wrong in those deals in which the EU is not involved, so the EU might as well join in as well. Two wrongs make a right? Perhaps not, but at...

Perhaps they wouldn't decide to. But at least ouside the EU the U.K. would be in a far better position to try and make the U.K. more more attractive to those buyers, because (a) they wouldn't be bound by all the EU's regulations for the overall manufacturing process of the goods, (b) they...

Who wants more cheap garbage from China anyway? Edited for typo.

Which President of the United States? I don't think the present incumbent of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is probably that well informed about anything much, Exactly. Britain might trade with all of them at the moment, but it's only on the EU's terms. (The same EU which talks about "free trade"...

Indeed, although I've mentioned amounts, does it really matter if the U.K.'s net payment to the EU is £12 billion, £8 billion, or even if it were "only" £1 billion per annum? Either way it's a vast amount of money which could do much more good kept in the country.

The costs can be huge, and there's really no way of telling until you get a price from the DNO. In my former life a neighbor's son was looking at getting power to a piece of land on which he had a mobile home and worked a lumber business, rural but only a couple of miles out of town and with...

These general home surveys seem to be the same the world over, certainly when it comes to electrics. We had one done purely for financing when we moved to our present home last year. On the electrical side, he caught the obvious problem of the standard non-weatherproof receptacle somebody had...

Class II or double insulated - Whichever you want to call it, it doesn't look like it to me.

I wouldn't hold your breath! It was all very biased, just the same as the present pro-EU givernment blurb is now. Notice, for example, the part extolling all the millions of pounds of grants received from the EEC, but absolutely no mention of how much the U.K. was paying to the EEC in the...

Then let's have a citation.

Don't confuse an average (which has almost certainly been taken as a mean average) with the price of the majority of homes. If 19 households are £200,000 homes and one is a £1.5 million house, what's the mean average for those 20 homes?

None of which actually answers the question I asked.

No doubt the same as you think it is (8.5), but you're trying to use the £4.9 billion rebate figure in a calculation in which it's completely irrelevant. If your other figures are correct, then the U.K.'s net contribution to the EU for 2015 was simply 17.8 - 4.4 = £13.4 billion per annum. Why...

Wasn't it established that the net contribution is about £33 million per day?

Really? In London and similar areas, perhaps, but even allowing for rapidly rising house prices since I left the U.K., I find it hard to believe that the majority of people live in homes over that amount.

But in some ways it's true that Brits are inherently different from other nationalities (and before you try to make such an implication, no that's not meant to imply that "them others" are all the same, since there are many ways in which the French are inherently different from the Germans, the...

Why do you and a certain other person always try to twist around anything which is said to try and make out that it's anti-foreigner sentiment?

Unfortunately, I think that describes the majority of politicians these days.

Of course there are. Do you think the EU offices are going to deal directly with every farmer in the U.K., every farmer in France, and so on? Every EU scheme involves bureaucrats at the national levels to administer it. I would imagine that in the U.K. it's some part of DEFRA.